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1D Chess is a fun, innovative chess variant played on a single row of 16 squares. Each player begins with one of each piece and must take their opponent’s king to win. The rules are intuitive for new and expert players alike, and offer a refreshing twist on the classic game of chess. In 1D Chess, Bishops and Queens can travel long distances along every other unoccupied square It's not just a nove…

Zine making was new to me in May. In July, International Zine Month hit. I created a dozen for a jam. Then kept going. In this collection of 21 fresh zines, you will find a myriad of different media used for a bouquet of ideas. From art zines to cutesy nicknames, political rants to adorable pests, and illustrated cinema tropes to walkabout results, you'll find something for every mood. Each zine …

Download, print, and share this 8-page zine that's available in a quarter-page size and in a mini-zine size. The topic is the fact that immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are our friends, neighbors, classmates, coworkers, and family members! Learn more about immigration and seeking asylum in the U.S. and find resources to take action to stand up for our neighbors. No human being is illegal! …

50 Years of Text Games (2023) told the story of the first half century of interactive fiction in a whirlwind tour of fifty text-based computer games, one for each year between 1971 and 2020. Now available as a standalone volume is this companion book, stuffed with extra chapters and bonus materials that couldn't fit in the main volume. Inside you'll find twelve new chapters and 85 pages covering …

2X71 is a new version of the original 1978 ruleset for future mutant campaigns. 40 pages of the rules will take you through: Designing a region. The referee will fill their world with ancient ruins, settlements, radioactive areas, and of course encounters and artifacts to uncover.Creating your characters. Players can decide whether their characters are human (wear armor, have more followers) or mu…

Fragments:001 is a 20-page digital art ZINE collecting quiet fragments of a world seen through an “observer’s” eyes. Monochrome illustrations with a unified layout  Short texts for each character, in English & Japanese  A glimpse into the universe of KOTOSAKA through small, personal scenes This edition is for reading on screen. You will get: 1 Standard PDF – Fragments001_standard.…

Winter 20/21 is the first edition of the Tiny Notts Chess Journal and is a dozen or so pages of chess news coverage, stories, and diving into games from amateurs and grandmasters. It’s strongly inspired by the iconic aesthetics of Chess Review which you may have seen be surreptitiously acquired by Elizabeth Harmon in her television series. This zine is a small home to a collection of writers inclu…

Created for the Zine Idea Generator 2.0 Jam, this zine is based on the first prompt I saw: The synergy of a scented zine and herbal tea was too fun to pass up. I cut out letters from herbal tea packaging to make the title, and inside is actual tea (glued to the pages). I had to make it scented somehow, after all! Zine Contents A snazzy cover!A contents page with the names of the teas!FOUR types of…

At the start of (nearly) every Clone Wars episode is a Jedi Proverb related to the plot. It's displayed in the same classic style (blue text with a black background) as "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." Recently, while marathoning the later seasons of the show, I opened a fortune cookie and realized that the fortune inside would be right at home at the start of an episode. Thus a ver…

Welcome to Ravenscrest.  On the surface, it is a small, stagnant town nestled somewhere within the Pacific Norwestern region of the United States.  As a high schooler living there, you are likely all too familiar that this description is the understatement of the millenia.  In fact, bad shit happens in the region  around Ravenscrest that the government(?) has even taken interest in the strange occ…